Is this supposed to be Jesus? Is WOTC saying that the bible is a fairy tale?

If you're gathering this idea from the art, Christian art and art portraying royalty have many parallels with each other. Gold and white coloration, halos around heads, grandeur and wealth, all very similar to each other.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you have a face down creature that dies while Rayami is on the battlefield, the face down creature is exiled face up with a blood counter, and therefore Rayami counts its abilities. Is that right?

For example: Sagu Mauler is face down with Rayami out. The Mauler dies, is exiled face up with a blood counter by Rayami's ability, and grants Rayami trample and hexproof?

I think this is the commander I'm most excited for out of the 4 decks, because I love the idea of keyword soup. Previously it was Sevinne. We'll see if this legendary creature holds my attention throughout spoiler season.

There was a big ruckus when he was revealed about how his ability should work as written, versus what was intended.

Basically people interpreted it as written as once you copy his abilities (via Quicksilver Elemental, for example), the "once per turn" clause goes away and you can do infinite combos super easy. However as was clarified here, I believe: https://twitter.com/EliShffrn/status/897894399329222656, the once per turn clause is tacked onto each ability of the caged cards. So copying Mairsil's abilities will also copy the "once per turn" clause.

So the legendary cards that are in the graveyard at the moment the ability that resolve gain that text... but legendary cards that enter the graveyard later don't... but those cards that did, if they leave the graveyard and eventually go back to grave, do they still have that text? Or did the zone change wipe that?

They're new objects when they change zones so they lose the ability. The ability is good for one play per legendary card, basically, you can't (just for example) activate the ability once and then continually replay and sac Saffi Eriksdotter the whole turn.

Is it just me or does this really hurt mono-red? Chump block all day (or start killing their creatures if you manage to get multiples out), and then safety net against any other spell to the head, excluding Banefire = 5 or greater...?

Panharmonicon and Yarok, the Desecrated loves this for sure. At first I thought it said "until ~ leaves the battlefield"...but you don't lose control of whatever permanent you steal. Also notably it doesn't say "nonland" either. If you can target it, it's fair game. The card draw on top of that is just gravy.

Zedruu the Greathearted group hug can steal an opponent's permanent with this, and funnel both those cards to another opponent, to help them trigger the draw 3 cards, too.

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